Hand Feeding Lineatus

btkrausen · Mar 23, 2011

Update: Tank was run to be clean for a day after a 25 percent water change and putting carbon in the Aquaclear. The water was crystal clear, and the lineatus was swimming around all over the tank, stil upside down mostly, but looks to be trying to flip over a bit. Overall he looks to be getting better and better, and is swimming around most of the time I see him now, instead of laying on the ground like he was.

Today I started him with a Seachem KanaPlex dose in the water, which is one level spoonful. I will also try to put a bit of KanaPlex in his food tonight, and compund it to the mysis using Seachem Focus.

96gts · Mar 27, 2011

Any update? The Lineatus I have in QT for 3-4 weeks started swimming funny yesterday.

btkrausen · Mar 27, 2011

Yup, the Lineatus is still in the same state, hanging out upside down, but swimming around in the tank still. I'm going to dose one more dose of KanaPlex today, and then start another round of Furan-2 in that tank. I've also moved a small clown and my Rhomboid in that tank as well.

96gts · Mar 27, 2011

Why do you want to move the clown and rhomboid to the QT?

btkrausen · Mar 27, 2011

The clown got moved into the QT because I shut down my frag tank, and he was in there. Didn't want to put him in the main tank cause I already have a Premium Picasso pair in there.

I moved the Rhomboid cause he's got a little something going on with his top fin which has come and gone, but I figured some meds wouldn't hurt. He was super hard to catch out of the display tank, haha. At least the Lineatus has some company now

Maybe the Rhomboid can give him some pointers on how to swim correctly again, hehe.